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LEE RUBENS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATioN-SUIT.

y Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.; 114i, 19163..

Application led March 23, 1914. Serial No. 826,705.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LEE RUBENs,citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Suits; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appeitains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to undergarments and more particularly to so-called combination suits or union suits for womens wear, being lmrticularly applicable to garments 0f this class made out of knit goods.

The prime object of my invention is to provide a garment having relatively few seams and requiring only two buttons for fastening the'same, and one which will be simple in construction and handsome in appearance.

Another object is to provide a flap or dropseat adapted to conform readily to the contour of the thighs and to be secured in its normal position by a single button.

Other objects will appear from the following description and from the accompany? ing drawings, in which y Figure 1 is a rear view of a combination garment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a pattern for the main portion of the suit. Fig. l is a plan of the patternfor the drop-seat. Fig. 5 is a plan of the pattern for the insert. Fig. 6 is a plan'of the pattern for .the sleeve. Fig. 7 is a plan of the pattern for the reinforcing piece. Fig. 8 is a view of one of the tab or strap portions of the garment.

vIn the embodiment 0f the drawings, the undergarment of my invention is .formed from a -main patternportion 1 equipped at its upper end with vertical slots 2 and having leg portions 3 integral therewith, the said leg portions being separated by a slit 1 extending longitudinally of the pattern substantially to the middle of the body portion thereof and terminating in a transverse slit 5. Instead of being cut according to the shape heretofore used for combination undergarments, the pattern for the body portion is widened, so as.to provide material. at each side for affording a lateral iap constituting an integral continuation -of the front portion of the leg of the garment, the said flap extending from the crotch of the garment substantially to the neck thereof. Secured to the respective flaps substantially in horizontal alinement with f the middle of the back are straps or tabs 6, each of which is equipped with a pair of button-holes 7.

In making the garment from the pattern as above described, sleeve portions 11 are secured respectively to the body member at the slots 2 therein, and the opposite edges of the leg portions are secured to each other by stitching, whereupon one of the tabs or straps 6 is drawn through a vertical slot 9 disposed in the garment substantially in line with the two opposed straps, and both of the said straps are looped over the back of the garment and secured by means of the said button-holes 7 to a button 10 fastened to the back of the garment. To complete the closure. the back of the garment is equipped with an auxiliary flap 8, cut from a pattern shaped substantially as shown in -Fig 1. This Hap is secured at its narrower end to the body member of the garment substantially in line-with the said straps 6, that is to say, substantially at the waist line of the garment, while one edge 12a of the said auxiliary'member is secured to the back of the garment so as to extend yalong the same over the thigh, the wider end 12 of the said flap 11 being secured substantially along the rear edges of the said slits in the leg portions of the garment. 'The other edge 13 of the saidiiap is not secured to the body member of the garment, but is equipped with one. or more button-holes whereby the same may be fastened to a button 14 `secured to the rear of the main member of the garment at or adjacent to the thigh.

When the garment is in its normal position on the erect person, the flaps will overlap from the crotch portion of the garment to the neck thereof, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the side portions of the main member of the garment will lap over each other, thereby affording a. double thickness of the-material over the abdomen and a portion of the chest, while the passing of one of the flaps 6 through the said slot 9 will permit both flaps to be overlapped and secured at the back of the garment by means of a single button. Consequently, the combination suit of my invention will provide an unusually warm undergarment and one which will require only a single button 10 to secure the main portions of the garment in position, and the single button 14 for securing the Hap. At the same time, the unbuttoning and folding back of the auxiliary flap 11 will coact with the slit 4 to afford the desired opening, the latter being further augmented by providing slits in the leg portions longitudinally thereof, and extending from the crotch toy about the middle of the thighs. To provide for a relatively narrow Waist effect, the portions of the main mem-ber adjacent to the vertical slot 4: are lapped over each other in fastening the garment thereby contracting the portion beloW the said straps 6 relatively to the portions of the garment above the said tabs.

It will be evident that the exposed edges of the garment of my invention may be given just as ornamental a finish as may be desired, as for instance, by an edge 15. To insure a sufiicient overlapping of the main and flap portions of the garment, I preferably secure an auxiliaryjstrip or insert 16 to one of the portions adjacent to the said vertical slot 4, as shown in Fig. 1. I also preferably have the tabs 6 of material having the Wale of the fabric running horizontally, or at right angles to the Wale of the fabric forming the body portions to which the tabs are secured, so that the said tabs will loe-relativelyinelastic, thereby affording a. firm fastening While permitting the lateral elasticity of the knit body portion of the garment to adjust the latter to the wearer. However, I do not Wish to be limited to the particular details thus shown and described, as the same might be altered in many Ways Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

A combination suit comprising a body portion provided at the front thereof with overlapping iaps each terminating in a strap adapted :to be secured at the back of the garment, yone of said straps passing through a slot in the side of the garment, each "of said flaps constituting an integral continuation of the front portion of the leg of the garment and overlapping from the crotch to the neck portion thereof, the back portion of the garment integral with said flaps and leg portions, said leg portions having slits extending downwardly from the crotch along the inner sides of the legs, said back having a slit extending from the crotch to the middle portion thereof, and a iap secured to the inner edges of the leg portions of the garment adjacent to the crotch and normally covering the said slit whereby a closed crotch garment is formed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name inl presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEE RUBENS.

Witnesses:

WM. H. JFISHER, MARY L. THOMAS. 

